Flying the sanctimonious flag
Irish university’s campus will go entirely smoke-free and vape-free from Friday.
University of Limerick’s entire campus is to be designated smoke and vape free from Friday.
The university had introduced extensive no smoking/vaping zones throughout the campus last September.
But this Friday June 1, all UL campuses will be designated entirely smoke and vape free.
Seeing as all indoor spaces are already “smoke free” then this presumably applies only to open air areas?
UL President, Professor Desmond Fitzgerald, said “This is a major step towards a healthier campus. I hope it will help those who want to quit smoking and also help prevent incoming students from taking up the habit.”
I fail to see how it’s going to lead to a healthier campus but never mind.
What about those who don’t want to quit?
“As a former smoker, I know how addictive nicotine is and how tough it is to stop smoking. I’m sure current smokers will struggle with this, but I also know that they do not want to see others start and that their sacrifice will save lives.”
Ah! One of those fucking smug bastards who gave up and is now filled with the virtuous zeal – a convert who is now a virulent anti-smoker. He is going to “save lives” by eliminating an almost undetectable breath of smoke or vapour in the open air. And he’s a university president? God help the standard of education in Limerick.
He told the UL community: “Your support for this initiative will ensure a healthier campus for all of the UL community and for our visitors.”
One very simple question for the professor – how will it make the place healthier?
He said UL’s student health centre will provide supports to students who wish to cease smoking/vaping and refer as appropriate to the relevant HSE primary care smoking cessation provider.
The HR department will direct UL staff who wish to cease smoking/vaping to the appropriate primary health care HSE smoking cessation programmes, he said.
I repeat – what about those who don’t want to quit? Many find smoking enjoyable, relaxing and an aid to concentration and the latter, I would have thought, would be desirable in an educational institute? I wonder what he would have done about Albert Einstein?
“University of Limerick aims to create a healthier, smoke free and vape free environment for its employees, students, contractors and visitors.”
And it is doing so by introducing a token gesture that will have zero affect on anyone’s health.
“Vaping includes the use of electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic pipes or other such electronic delivery systems intended to simulate smoking, whether they deliver a nicotine dose or not,” Prof Fitzgerald said.
No nicotine? Someone sticking something in their mouths that produces harmless vapour without even any nicotine in it is somehow injurious to health? The fact that this comes from a so called learned man is quite astounding.
How did the human race sink so low?
One wonders if the esteemed scholar will also be eradicating other sources of nicotine under the virtue-signalling auspices of ‘health.’
You know, the patches and gum the “HSE smoking cessation programmes” will be doling out, the tea, aubergines, tomatoes and potatoes found in the kitchens…
Of if it’s just ‘looks like smoking, if you tilt your head to the right and squint a bit’ will he be handing out punishments for sucking on the ends of pens and pencils?
I presume also that a nicotine patch is less dangerous than breathing fresh air? If an electrofag with no nicotine is banned where a patch with nicotine isn’t?
Oh well the students and staff will get some exercise walking out to the first bit of non-uni-bailiwick road…as they do everywhere else such Verbots are in place. I hope the Rector enjoys the sight of the ‘Legion Of The Damned’, those crowds of students and staff smoking outside the main gate when he sweeps in his big car in the morning.
Even better, some enterprising lecturers just hold their classes henceforth in the neighbouring fields?
Not to worry, the full range of crack cocaine, heroin, amphetamine and other illegal recreational substances will continue to be available, and consumed, throughout the campus, as much by the staff as by the kids.We can all sleep more easily knowing that the little snowflake darlings will not be exposed to the immeasurable hazard of secondary smoke.
As for the kids vaping nicotine free bubble gum flavour – they’re rightly fucked healthwise.
Let me think. They’ve got 2600 parking spaces, some free for students. http://www.ul.ie/buildings/content/parking So maybe they’ll find a sudden increase in ratty old vans, with blacked out windows at the back and clutches of students popping in for 5 to 10 minutes. Vapors will of course commandeer the sit down loos, until they remove the doors. One thing’s for sure, after his patronising grandstand it’ll be like a red rag to a bull.
I see they have their own clampers too. I suppose it’s all preparation for the real world?
Seems there is a market opening for modified asthma inhalers.
I think the road-racing cyclists have beaten you to that ruse. For such athletically fit people, it’s quite amazing how many of them apparently need those innocuous ‘asthma inhalers’ so frequently . . . . . .
If only we had this problem in american universities. We have this plus students who spend all day hiding in safe places, crying for their mommies, and physically attacking the sane students. Ah to be in Ireland again.
“How did the human race sink so low?”
Isn’t there a saying about things getting worse before they get better …?
Yeah the no nicotine thing.On wintery days in future are students absently having a pen near their mouth while exhaling visible vapour gonna be thrown off campus or censured for appearing to vape/smoke ?In fact some students of a more liberal nature could deliberately stage such happenings to troll the idiotic leadership of their institution which apparently isn’t freeing minds to be open to new ideas just attempting to factory produce compliant zombies.